cotswolds, european, parliament, constituency, cotswolds, sometimes, called, cotswolds, european, parliament, constituency, covering, counties, gloucestershire, oxfordshire, england, cotswoldseuropean, parliament, constituencyeuropean, parliament, logomember, . Cotswolds sometimes called The Cotswolds was a European Parliament constituency covering the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire in England CotswoldsEuropean Parliament constituencyEuropean Parliament logoMember stateUnited KingdomCreated1979Dissolved1999MEPs1Sources 1 Before uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999 the United Kingdom used first past the post for the European elections in Great Britain The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each When it was created in 1979 it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Banbury Cheltenham Cirencester and Tewkesbury Gloucester Mid Oxfordshire Oxford and Stroud 1 From 1984 it consisted of Banbury Cheltenham Cirencester and Tewkesbury Gloucester Stratford on Avon Stroud and Witney From 1994 it consisted of Cheltenham Cirencester and Tewkesbury Gloucester Stroud West Gloucestershire and Witney Contents 1 Members of the European Parliament 2 Election results 3 References 4 External linksMembers of the European Parliament editElected Name Party1979 Sir Henry later Lord Plumb ConservativeElection results editEuropean Parliament election 1979 Cotswolds Party Candidate Votes Conservative Sir Henry Plumb 109 139 58 6Labour Jim A Honeybone 37 713 20 3Liberal Muriel Eda Burton 27 916 15 0United Against the Common Market Donald Bennett 11 422 6 1Majority 71 426 38 3Turnout 186 190Conservative win new seat European Parliament election 1984 Cotswolds Party Candidate Votes Conservative Sir Henry Plumb 94 740 53 5 5 1Liberal Muriel Eda Burton 45 798 25 8 10 8Labour Janet A Royall 36 738 20 7 0 4Majority 48 942 27 7 10 6Turnout 177 276Conservative hold SwingEuropean Parliament election 1989 Cotswolds Party Candidate Votes Conservative Lord Plumb 94 852 45 1 8 4Green Sue Limb 49 174 23 4 NewLabour Tom Levitt 48 180 22 9 2 2SLD Leslie Anthony Rowe 18 196 8 6 17 2Majority 45 678 21 7 6 0Turnout 210 402Conservative hold SwingEuropean Parliament election 1994 Cotswolds Party Candidate Votes Conservative Lord Plumb 67 484 34 5 10 6Labour Tess J Kingham 63 216 32 3 9 4Liberal Democrats John C Thomson 44 269 22 7 14 1New Britain Melvyn D Rendell 11 044 5 7 NewGreen Duncan McCanlis 8 254 4 2 19 2Natural Law Henry W Brighouse 1 151 0 6 NewMajority 4 268 2 2 19 5Turnout 195 418Conservative hold SwingReferences edit David Boothroyd s United Kingdom Election Results Retrieved 20 January 2008 External links editDavid Boothroyd s United Kingdom Election Results nbsp nbsp This United Kingdom election related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about the European Union is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cotswolds European Parliament constituency amp oldid 1184581527, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
